Now you can see the rhino has split into seven different parts. We just go to Mesh, then Separate Connected Surfaces. If we want to make changes to just the rhino’s legs, we can split the model into its individual parts. This can make models more difficult to work with, but thankfully there’s a great feature in Simplif圓D to help with that. Sometimes, a file has multiple solids that are all contained in the same file, like this rhino. If it’s a completely enclosed surface, the software sees that as a solid object. You’ll notice the triangles all fit together to form a surface. If you toggle on the wireframe view from the right-hand toolbar, you can actually see each of the individual triangles that make up the model. When you import an STL file, it just contains a bunch of triangles. Today, we’re looking at the Separate Connected Surfaces feature in Simplif圓D, which can be found in the Mesh menu.
